I had an old ugly brown square electric pencil sharpener that I had for 20 years and was excellent, but it eventually gave out and died. Since then I have tried several electric pencil sharpeners and several battery operated sharpeners. They all worked fine for a very limited amount of time, then the leads started breaking off in the units and for some pencils you could never get a point at all. Other times the pencil sharpened at a weird angle so it was pointed but 1 side was lead and the other was still wood.In a complete and total act of desperation I bought this pencil. Which works beautifully so far (longer than any of the others) and costs less.

This is a great pencil sharpener. The sharpener arrived just one business day after I ordered it. It sharpens pencils and colored pencils perfectly - with ease. My kids are able to use it. It also has a mechanism on it to ensure you can't over sharpen. However, the clamp that holds the pencil sharpener to the table comes loose while it is being used. We do not have the luxury of putting the sharpener on the wall and need to use the clamp. So we just have to retighten it during the use of it to ensure it doesn't come loose. Otherwise, it's a great sharpener!

WOW! This product has two barrels that sharpen the pencil and does it perfectly! The great thing is that you don't have to screw it into anything. The product comes with a clamp that fastens the sharpener to a location such as a desk or table. It also comes with screws if you decide to use them. Just awesome!

We bought about 30 of these for the classrooms at our elementary school. We are midway through the second year using them and I've only had to replace 3 (1 of which was due to a child trying to sharpen the eraser end of his pencil...so not a product fault). This is a WAY better track record than past models that we were using. The main design flaw that I would point out is the handle. The little spinner/grip thing on the end has broken off of some of them which just leaves a metal post. It still works, but it would be nice if the metal post just had a wide ended grip on it instead of this plastic that isn't very durable.